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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 5: Dave Holmes & Monique Powell

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

Game Show, J. Keith Van Straaten, Quiz, Arts, Helen Hong, Comedy, Angel City, Trivia, Podcast

4.8 • 862 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, writer, comedian and International Waters host Dave Holmes competes against Save Ferris’ Monique Powell. Holmes shares his number one piece of advice for game show host newbies like J. Keith, and Powell tells us about her hard-partying ways on last year’s Warped Tour. Monique’s areas of expertise include: cat behavior, home remedies, and brisket. Dave’s areas of expertise are: Broadway musicals, beer commercials and Melrose Place. Before their professed expertise is put to the test, however, J. Keith Van Straaten and Helen Hong will ask if their guests can explain the difference between venom, poison, and toxin, as well as the difference between a homonym, a homophone, and a homograph. Do YOU know the difference? Find out! Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Dave Holmes, Host of International Waters and editor-at-large for Esquire Magazine Monique Powell of https://saveferris.com/ With guest experts: Jessica Morgan, TV-recap writer extraordinaire and co-founder of the celebrity fashion blogGo Fug Yourself Dr. Rachel Malamed, Veterinary Behaviorist Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. The show is recorded at the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles. Theme Song by Jonathan Green David McKeever is the Live Sound Engineer. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher The show is edited by Christian Dueñas

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0:00.0

Are you a real no-it-all?

0:07.0

Do you annoy your family by shouting the answers while watching Jeopardy?

0:11.0

Do you drive people crazy when you start a sentence with, well, actually?

0:16.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:20.0

Hi, everyone. Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:25.1

Hi, everyone.

0:30.6

Welcome to Go Fact Yourself, the show where we take the smartest people we know and make them look dumb.

0:32.5

And then smart again.

0:33.9

I'm Helen Hong. And now from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles, here's our moderator,

0:38.5

Jake Keith Van Stratton. Thank you, Helen. Thanks, everybody. Nice to see you all. You know,

0:44.5

Helen, I was thinking what might be a fun thing for us to do at the top of the show is to have some

0:48.4

casual banter. Okay. Let's do it. You go first. Why, Jay Keith, those are some snazzy glasses you're wearing. Too bad the podcast audience can't see them.

1:03.8

Today on GoFact Yourself, two guests will compete to answer questions about facts they know, facts they might not know, and frankly, facts they should know.

1:12.5

Plus, we'll meet actual experts in two very different topics, and finally we'll declare one of our guests, the winner of today's show.

1:18.5

Let's get started and meet the first of today's guests. Helen, who's up first?

1:21.7

He is a writer, a comedian, editor at large for Esquire magazine, and host of the podcast, International Waters,

1:29.4

it's Dave Holmes.

1:30.9

Dave Holmes!

1:36.0

Who-hoo!

1:37.0

Hello, Dave Holmes.

1:37.8

Welcome to the Shacko.

1:38.6

Hi, Dave Holmes.

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